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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs, is arguably the most influential book written on urban planning in the 20th century. First published in 1961, the book is a scathing critique of modernist planning policies claimed by Jacobs...


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The American Enterprise
The Death and Life of Great American Cities.(Review) (book reviews)
11/01/1999: 790 words, approx. 3 pages
The Death and Life of Great American Cities By lane Jacobs, 1961 When I went off to college in 1965, had no idea a thick tan paperback I'd recently read would be close by my desk 34 years later, accompanied by a...
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The Stranger
American Life, American Death
11/23/2006: 921 words, approx. 3 pages
American Life, American Death Three Plays About Race, Love, and War The Book of Nathan Theater Schmeater Through Dec 9. Winner of Theater Schmeater's 2005 Northwest Playwright Competition, The Book of Nathan (by Joseph L. Mitchell) teeters precariously on...
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The New York Observer
Woof, Woof, Woof, Woof, Jane Jacobs, Woof
5/29/2007: 452 words, approx. 2 pages
On a recent Friday evening in Washington Square Park, a 45-year-old man named Gary slouched beneath a pregnant oak while his mutt Nana lay on the ground. Sporting a bald pate, boxy spectacles and a weathered cane, Gary sat that sweaty day—as he has nearly...
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The New York Observer
At W.T.C. and Brooklyn Arena, Death and Life of the Superblock
9/25/2005: 1,928 words, approx. 6 pages
When the smoke cleared from the rubble of the World Trade Center, the image that emerged was of a brave new neighborhood that was supposed to behave, if not look, like the West Village that Jane Jacobs used to write about. The 16-acre raised plaza,...
 


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